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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 1–30.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Sierra Lomuto Abstract This essay outlines the current challenges facing medieval studies by focusing on the deployment of “medieval” as a category for knowledge production. It argues that as the field confronts white supremacist medievalism and pushes for a global turn, it exposes...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 107–121.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Adam Miyashiro Abstract Debates in medieval studies about race and the global Middle Ages parallel past debates in comparative literature. Both comparative literature and medieval studies struggle with their Eurocentric origins while simultaneously trying to negotiate a non-Eurocentric approach...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 123–144.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh Abstract This essay explores the politics of disciplinarity in medieval studies by revisiting the author's own graduate medieval studies program at the University of California, Berkeley. Along with another graduate student, the author advocated for a more flexible...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 173–187.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Mariah Min Abstract This essay argues that “medieval race”—which has been gaining a recent foothold in medieval studies—is counterproductive as a concept because it occludes the mobility of race. Mobility here refers to the way that race takes on multiple forms within the same historical moment...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 233–246.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Elizabeth J. West Abstract In its special issue, “The ‘Medieval’ Undone: Imagining a New Global Past,” boundary 2 reveals connections of medieval studies beyond the field's self-declared boundary of 500 – 1500 AD. Though focusing on medieval studies, these essays underscore the field's long...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 83–103.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Michelle R. Warren Abstract As decades turn to centuries to millennia, the contemporary relationship with the past is increasingly medieval. This article takes the perspective of extreme long-term thinking to reexamine how medieval studies can interact with more contemporary fields. How might...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 57–81.
Published: 01 August 2023
...: A Post-European Perspective .” ELH 71 , no. 2 : 289 – 311 . Cohen Jeffrey Jerome . 2010 . “ Blogging the Middle Ages .” In Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog: Medieval Studies and New Media , edited by Bryant Brantley , 29 – 42 . New York : Palgrave Macmillan . Davis Kathleen...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 189–209.
Published: 01 August 2023
... sequesters medieval objects of study from contributing to the ongoing theorization of critical frameworks. The article analyzes a thirteenth-century Old French text, Les enfances Renier , to demonstrate how a medieval text depicts ambivalence in the face of alterity, a hallmark of recent post-Saidian...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 33–55.
Published: 01 August 2023
... University Press 2023 Islamic history medieval Middle Ages Islam Orientalism Medieval studies is at a moment of reckoning. The current battle over its role in white supremacist ideology, 1 playing out on a massive public scale as whitewashed fantasy “medieval” epics and revived medieval...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 145–169.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Christopher Livanos; Mohammad Salama Abstract The medieval tendency to view Islam as a Christian heresy continues to influence Qurʾanic studies in the Western academy due to the academy's origins as a religious institution and the absence of systematic reckoning by contemporary scholars. Ludovico...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 247–248.
Published: 01 August 2023
... Chaucer . Anne Le holds a PhD in French and Francophone Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is the Public Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Notre Dame's Medieval Institute. She specializes in romances and chansons de geste from the twelfth and thirteenth...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 211–231.
Published: 01 August 2023
... and as historical difference qua difference. These contradictory historiographic orientations, which Kathleen Biddick ( 1998 : 83) describes in their incarnations in medieval scholarship as “pastism” and “presentism,” are not unique to the field of medieval studies, though the Western Middle Ages does occupy...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (1): 237–250.
Published: 01 February 2021
..., which arose mainly in medieval studies (the journal Speculum was instrumental here) and took a special interest in the proliferation of variants. See Gumbrecht 2003: 37 39. Review Essay / Eiland 241 the philological impulse. But one should not deceive oneself: this impulse is destructible. (95; thesis...
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boundary 2 (2004) 31 (3): 1–46.
Published: 01 August 2004
...Rashmi Bhatnagar; Renu Dube; Reena Dube Duke University Press 2004 Meera’s Medieval Lyric Poetry in Postcolonial India:
The Rhetorics of Women’s Writing in Dialect as a
Secular Practice of Subaltern Coauthorship and Dissent
Rashmi Bhatnagar, Renu Dube, and Reena Dube...
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boundary 2 (2006) 33 (1): 77–98.
Published: 01 February 2006
... expression of analogical parallels between differ-
ent networks of iconic likeness. In setting up its correspondences between
a certain story, let’s say, and a set of meanings (the significatio of medieval
exegesis), the method usually gives a vague impression of system. As rheto-
ricians ancient...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (1): 223–243.
Published: 01 February 2013
... 116, no. 3 [June 2011]: 723).
9. The problems in the study of ancient and medieval state structures (and the related
subjectivities) are still significant. Recently, Francis Fukuyama’s Origins of the Political
Krallis / The Critic’s Byzantine Ploy 227...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (3): 39–61.
Published: 01 August 2024
... mon complex (as medieval tale, as modernist literary icon Akutagawa Ryūnosuke's retelling, and Akira Kurosawa's occupation‐era filmic allegory) to stage multiple haunted and contesting testimonies about these unjustly repressed and unresolved crimes of war and postwar. [email protected]...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (1): 77–80.
Published: 01 February 2013
... to study and read the Bible in
itself but had no tolerance for images, let alone peasants’ rebellions. I am
not a Protestant.
In his book Meaning in History (1949), the Heideggerian Karl Löwith
explored the theological presuppositions of the philosophy of history, argu-
ing that its idea...
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boundary 2 (2006) 33 (1): 7–35.
Published: 01 February 2006
... a long and unbroken tradition, beginning with the disintegra-
tion of the medieval world and the emergence of intellectual, moral, and
cultural ideas that together would eventually constitute the modern world.
Strauss and his thought represent a fundamental rejection of this world. This
critique...
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boundary 2 (2008) 35 (3): 239–250.
Published: 01 August 2008
... surveys of new “medieval-
isms.” The financialization of the globe after the end of the cold war has
been accompanied by worldwide escalations in religious and ethnic strife,
violent subnationalisms, failed nation-states, a range of murderous funda-
mentalisms, and a prophetically ordaining, macabre...
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